Saturday, February 26, 2011

So, I posted the other day a picture of what I have been working on the other day...

little did I know this project would prove to be the death of me...mainly because

MY HUSBAND HATES IT!

UGH! I am really trying to get him on board... so some really awesome comments about how great it looks might win him over :)

It all started with this:

(please excuse the dust) :)

My cute ( i mean very disobedient) 3 year old decided to pretend to be spider man and jump off the couch, while pulling my very heavy curtain rod down with him. I mean rod, hooks, screws, curtains, everything! Yeah! After some long deep breaths, and a whole lot of prayers not to kill him. I figured this would be a great time to try something on this

huge wall that I have been wanting to try...

STENCILING!

Here is the giant wall before:

So I bought a stencil at Hobby Lobby and away I went... (trying so badly to finish before my not so ambitious husband got home) Little, did I know that this was a much much more intense project. There is the initial stenciling, then touch up and more stenciling...

FOREVER!

Please excuse the bad lighting and the ladder I just could not muster up the strength to move it, and after many long hours and a few not very nice words, here is the wall!

Good bye boring, Hello interesting!

I messed up a little in the top center, but nothing a great wreath can't fix!

Here's to all my 80% er's out there!!!

I still have one more row to do, but I had to take some pictures and my husband is trying to convince me to paint over it :(

Thursday, February 17, 2011

Spring is right around the corner and what a better way to welcome it, then with a blooming lamp?

I have a lamp in my daughter's room, that is cute...but lately it has really been boring me. I have been looking around for a new shade, but really do not want to spend any money...

Well, today I was looking in the Pottery Barn Kids magazine, day dreaming about what it would actually be like to order something from it, when I came across this picture of a beautiful lamp... I mean it was only $99.00, plus shipping, plus the base. So once I calculated how many months of my monthly budget it would take to save up for that beautiful lamp, I realized that I could totally make one like that with my daughters old lamp.I thought about buying some silk flowers to hot glue on the shade, which would be very pretty, but still to get that many flowers would still be more than I wanted to pay. So I walked around the house trying to come up with another alternative. And then I say a roll of crepe paper that I had use for my daughter's birthday party last year. It was the right color and I had almost an entire roll. Then I remembered seeing around blogland those super adorable crepe paper roses...

And it was on...I started whipping out those roses like there was no tomorrow. If you have not seen them they are very simple to make. First I cut a bunch of 12 inch strips. Next you roll the end about 3-4 times and then fold paper in half. With your left hand grab fold and start wrapping and twisting your strip. Twist wrap, twist wrap until you are at the end. Then I just added a dot of hot glue and you have a rose. You will start to have a bucket full like this.This is by far the longest part. It took me about an hour to get all of the roses made.Once you have a pretty good pile, I started hot gluing them in a line around the shade like this...Once you fill the whole shade you have a whimsical and very girly lamp that any little girl would love to have...Enjoy!!

Friday, February 4, 2011

After completing the table cloth, I was on a roll and started thinking about the next thing I could make, naturally a really over the top cupcake stand was top on my list.

So I gathered my supplies:

2 hat boxes ( the ones that are just cardboard)

Black paint

paint brush

ribbon

scissors

The first thing I did was paint the boxes black and let them dry

Second, I cut circles out and put onto the top just for pure decorations,

the cupcakes will cover most of that.

Then I played around with the ribbon and put it on with double-sided tape (my new FAVORITE craft supply) until I got it how I wanted it!

Next I got out some leftover paper from some other super bowl decorations and made some paper flowers. Super easy, just cut out five circles, (they do NOT need to be perfect, actually it is better if they are not!)ruff them up a little, to give dimension, and hot glue together.

I hot glued them onto the boxes and there you go, a super fun cupcake stand!

Here is a peek at some of the other projects I am working on...

A very easy banner. I just used my Silhouette to cut out the pennants and the letters.

Then garland is just circles that I sewed together...which by the way is so easy and looks really cute. It is for sure my go to new banner idea!

I love it and I want to give a BIG shout out to Erin over at Designer Blogs! She did a great job and was super fast and super affordable! If you need a new design I would highly reccomend checking them out HERE!

I also am so excited to have a button, if you visit here often I would love it if you grabbed it!

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I am a mom of three beautiful children, and a wife to an amazing man! I love my life and I love my Savior! I am constantly trying to find joy in the midst of this crazy chaos, and finding the only way to accomplish that is through God's mercy and grace!